So ridiculous to hype these because pro riders are getting paid to use them. Air filters don't win races... What I want to know, is will these offer more protection and longer service life when I ride my Multistrada offroad in dusty conditions.
I know your comment is 3 months old but I'd like to chime in on my RESEARCH EXPERIENCE so far. I mean, if your Multistrada uses a paper element, then yes this filter, or any FOAM filter will provide adequate if not better filtering performance when oiled (any good foam filter oil will have a slight negative charge to it applied during manufacturing, as particulates are fluttering through the air they have a positive charge, think of how static electricity works when you move socks on your feet against the floor, this positively charged dust is molecularly ATTRACTED to the foam filter when oiled), and have a longer service interval due to the increased surface area a foam filter provides over a paper element. Imagine you get about 2sq in of filter media real estate from a foam filter for every 1.5sq in of pleated paper filter media real estate (excluding the fact that most paper elements have a SOLID BOTTOM where foam goes all the way around, increasing the overall filter real estate drastically for certain models). There is a reason ALL NON PLATED DIRTBIKES use foam filters and have been for the last bajillion years, for dusty conditions where the filter will be ingesting a lot of particulate matter, the surface area of a foam filter CANNOT be beat by cotton gauze filters like K&N or paper media filters like OEM. OEM STREET BIKES use paper media due to cheapness, reliability of the media for road use, and it is easier to achieve a factory BASE TUNE for THOUSANDS of vehicles off of a RESTRICTIVE media that has less variables than that of a foam filter. It's easier to gauge how a paper element will perform over a large manufacturing run compared to a foam element where every single foam filter TECHNICALLY has different base structures depending on how the foam formed during manufacturing, this makes passing EPA more consistent. I don't really know the benefits of MWR over other foam filters like Tusk, or UNI for example, but for my specific use-case on a potential Terene 700 I'm looking at and doing research on, the Tusk seems sketchy because they just buy out the manufactured product of some other company that passes "x" variables and slap their name on it, usually stuff from china, and UNI has had reliability issues FOR THE TERENE SPECIFICALLY, their other filters may be perfectly fine. Personally for my dirtbikes I use a "No-Toil" system, but they don't offer anything for the Terene. So I've found that and upgrade path for the filter is either MWR, Tusk, Uni (reliability issues so no thanks), or FunnelWeb foam filters. I was doing a bit of research into FunnelWeb but based on the fact they primarily do sales and manufacturing in the AU and resellers over here in the US charge crazy upcharges for them, plus they just look gimmicky, I am leaning away. That leaves MWR with the MWR filter cover for the Terene, looks like even if the media of the foam alone does not increase performance, the filter cover alone being nearly 2x the open space for airflow over even DNA's filter solution will allow the bike to breathe easier. It baffles me that DNA would increase the airflow of the filter media but leave the top plate cover for the airbox roughly the same diameter, if not only SLIGHTLY bigger than stock with a smoothed edge, seems like they missed the mark on allowing 20-35% more airflow in through the top cover alone like the MWR filter cover does, might have something to do with velocity of the air coming into the airbox due to the smaller, curved edge, but a design like that will ALWAYS (even if miniscule) apply a small extra strain on a motor/pump/siphoning function as a negative pressure is created inside the airbox during operation compared to a larger inlet airbox lid.
how are these filter performance vs the spront p16 race filter? using oil on filters will eventually get in the throttle bodies right
So ridiculous to hype these because pro riders are getting paid to use them. Air filters don't win races...
What I want to know, is will these offer more protection and longer service life when I ride my Multistrada offroad in dusty conditions.
I know your comment is 3 months old but I'd like to chime in on my RESEARCH EXPERIENCE so far.
I mean, if your Multistrada uses a paper element, then yes this filter, or any FOAM filter will provide adequate if not better filtering performance when oiled (any good foam filter oil will have a slight negative charge to it applied during manufacturing, as particulates are fluttering through the air they have a positive charge, think of how static electricity works when you move socks on your feet against the floor, this positively charged dust is molecularly ATTRACTED to the foam filter when oiled), and have a longer service interval due to the increased surface area a foam filter provides over a paper element. Imagine you get about 2sq in of filter media real estate from a foam filter for every 1.5sq in of pleated paper filter media real estate (excluding the fact that most paper elements have a SOLID BOTTOM where foam goes all the way around, increasing the overall filter real estate drastically for certain models). There is a reason ALL NON PLATED DIRTBIKES use foam filters and have been for the last bajillion years, for dusty conditions where the filter will be ingesting a lot of particulate matter, the surface area of a foam filter CANNOT be beat by cotton gauze filters like K&N or paper media filters like OEM. OEM STREET BIKES use paper media due to cheapness, reliability of the media for road use, and it is easier to achieve a factory BASE TUNE for THOUSANDS of vehicles off of a RESTRICTIVE media that has less variables than that of a foam filter. It's easier to gauge how a paper element will perform over a large manufacturing run compared to a foam element where every single foam filter TECHNICALLY has different base structures depending on how the foam formed during manufacturing, this makes passing EPA more consistent.
I don't really know the benefits of MWR over other foam filters like Tusk, or UNI for example, but for my specific use-case on a potential Terene 700 I'm looking at and doing research on, the Tusk seems sketchy because they just buy out the manufactured product of some other company that passes "x" variables and slap their name on it, usually stuff from china, and UNI has had reliability issues FOR THE TERENE SPECIFICALLY, their other filters may be perfectly fine. Personally for my dirtbikes I use a "No-Toil" system, but they don't offer anything for the Terene. So I've found that and upgrade path for the filter is either MWR, Tusk, Uni (reliability issues so no thanks), or FunnelWeb foam filters. I was doing a bit of research into FunnelWeb but based on the fact they primarily do sales and manufacturing in the AU and resellers over here in the US charge crazy upcharges for them, plus they just look gimmicky, I am leaning away. That leaves MWR with the MWR filter cover for the Terene, looks like even if the media of the foam alone does not increase performance, the filter cover alone being nearly 2x the open space for airflow over even DNA's filter solution will allow the bike to breathe easier. It baffles me that DNA would increase the airflow of the filter media but leave the top plate cover for the airbox roughly the same diameter, if not only SLIGHTLY bigger than stock with a smoothed edge, seems like they missed the mark on allowing 20-35% more airflow in through the top cover alone like the MWR filter cover does, might have something to do with velocity of the air coming into the airbox due to the smaller, curved edge, but a design like that will ALWAYS (even if miniscule) apply a small extra strain on a motor/pump/siphoning function as a negative pressure is created inside the airbox during operation compared to a larger inlet airbox lid.
Oiled foam is the best.
As long as the seal of the filter is good, then the foam keeps our pretty much everything but o2